Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has advised Nigerians to reject the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the polls for allegedly fighting and squandering over N16 billion dollars at Wuse market when the party was in power for 16 years.
Tinubu, who made the allegations during the Presidential campaign rally at Aper Aku township stadium, Makurdi on Thursday, noted that the PDP regime also issued the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) licences to their supporters and started creating queues and blackmailing the government.
Addressing the APC mammoth crowd, Tinubu insisted that former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, was richer than what he could account for, assuring of establishing a student’s loan facility if elected president this year; adding that his regime will reduce hardship and bring hope back to the internally displaced persons in Benue state.
The leader of APC in Benue state and Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, George Akume, described the Tinubu/Shettima team as a perfect combination that will bring Nigeria out of its current woes.
According to him, Tinubu, who is a Muslim supported Dr. Iyorchia Ayu to become president of the Senate while he (Akume) also benefited from his benevolence as Senate minority leader under APC.
Advising Nigerians against voting on religious consideration, Senator Akume stated that Tinubu was not undergoing experiment as he was tested before, assuring that Benue people will vote for APC candidates.
Governorship candidate of APC in Benue state, Revd Fr. Hyacinth Alia, said Benue is, at the moment, in a deplorable condition and only the Tinubu presidency can salvage the situation.
In his remarks, the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council, and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, stated that Tinubu in 2015 influenced the voting of Governor Samuel Ortom under APC but he eloped with the mandate to the PDP.
He assured that such a mandate will be recovered in the forthcoming general election where Alia will take over, where there will be no cases of killings and non-payment of salaries in Benue, urging the people to vote massively for a change in favour of APC.
Earlier, the state APC chairman, Austin Agada, assured that the Benue community had been mobilised and sensitised on the need to vote out the PDP government in Benue state.
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